Chris Connelly

The closing of MTV News was part of massive layoffs across Showtime, MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks that will hit 25% of their employees.

Cold Waves Chicago goes down September 18-20 and the lineup also includes Stabbing Westward, She Past Away, The KVB, Paul Barker, Chris Connelly, and more.

The tour, presented by House of Vans and Record Store Day, is to promote the new Wax Trax! documentary and Ministry’s sets will stick to ’Psalm 69’ and earlier material. All shows are free.

The soundtrack includes unreleased and out-of-print tracks from Revolting Cocks, KMFDM, Front 242, Laibach, Chris Connelly, The Young Gods, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and more.

Revolting Cocks, the industrial supergroup featuring Chris Connelly, Luc Van Acker, Paul Barker and Richard 23, just finished bulldozing their way across North America, playing their debut album Big Sexy Land in full. The tour hit NYC on Saturday (11/18) at Gramercy Theatre with Canadian compatriots Front Line Assembly as the undercard.

Attention Hüsker Dü fans, Grant Hart is playing a pair of Chicago shows this week. The first of two is TONIGHT (Monday, 9/9) at Danny’s with Chris Connelly; there isn’t a cover…

With the addition of The Soft Pack, Gypsyblood, the Mutts, Young Jesus, and Magic Milk, the 2012 Do Division Street Festival has sealed its schedule…

On February 21, Zola Jesus toured her way through Chicago, playing a packed show at Lincoln Hall with openers Talk Normal and Chris Connelly…

today in Chicago * Bullet Hell, Vertonen, James Connolly @ The Burlington * Chapter 24, Blind Shake, The Larroquettes @ Empty Bottle * Chicago Sounds in the ’80s @ Museum of Contemporary Art * Korallreven, Young Magic, How To Dress Well (DJ set) @ Schubas * St…

Sound Opinions co-hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot will pick apart some of Chicago’s most influential musical movements of the 80s, when they sit down with three very special guests at the Museum of Contemporary Art on March 6th for a round-table discussion…